We celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary this month! In sickness and in health, richer or poorer, for better or for worse; goodness knows, we have had our share of it all! By God’s grace, life together has been so sweet. It just gets sweeter as the days go by! We’ve been given a great, love-of-a-lifetime, storybook romance that has been the most precious gift as we walk through this amazing, challenging life. Thankful we work so well as a team - always toward the goal of Heaven and taking as many souls with us as we can! We just wrapped up leading a Bible study that focused on the purpose of marriage. The purpose being: to bring God glory as our singular focus while on earth, to make disciples along the way, and to use the short time we have to prepare one another for the day we will meet Jesus face to face. In comparison, nothing else matters!
Our Clara graduated high school with highest honors and two years of college credits! She worked so hard for this amazing accomplishment, and we are extremely proud of her. Clara has received a full tuition scholarship at Liberty University and will be pursuing a degree in nursing this coming Fall. She has already moved Stateside and is working through the summer to pay her room and board. Please be praying for her as she adjusts to life away from home and all things familiar.
The “Little House” is now dried-in and safe from the elements with windows, doors and exterior moulding completed! We are wrapping things up here in preparation to head out soon for our furlough. It’s not easy to leave a whole mission base to be running in our absence, but we are extremely thankful for our dear friends who are coming from Germany to base-sit for us! They are an amazing missionary couple who were in charge of the Swiss Mission’s base maintenance for many years, so not only are they competent and perfect for the job, they are very dear friends!
Thank you for your prayers for Vann’s kidney stones! It turns out after a CT scan, that what the previous ultrasound had showed as a 9mm stone (which is life threatening if it gets stuck trying to pass) and two other 6.5ish stones are in fact two small stones in one kidney and three small stones in the other. This is good news since they are passable sizes and he will not need surgical intervention! He has passed a couple of them in the last two months, so we are hopeful that he can continue to manage with pushing lots of fluids.
May the Lord bless and keep each of you as you pray, care, and walk with us in this mission to get the gospel to those who have never heard the good news; Jesus saves, and He is coming again soon!
“Let me make my service of Jesus my occupation, my life-work, my one pursuit.” - Charles Spurgeon
Thank you for the outstanding update. You are a blessing to so many.
Prayers for Vann’s kidney stone problem.
Happy 25th.